Birding Apps for iPhone

Here are some of the latest and greatest birding apps for iPhone. Two that stick out among the competition are the iBird Pro and the BirdsEye applications. Both have field guide related information, but the BirdsEye app also allows users to see what birds have been recently sighted in specific locations and has an inventory of birding hotspots as well.

View BirdsEye

Some Features of BirdsEye App for iPhone:

• Powered by eBird, a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Audubon
• New observations are downloaded from eBird over the network
• Over one million bird observations each month reviewed by local birding experts.
• Map of 25,000 birding hotspots
• Can show you where any one of 847 North American species has been seen recently – and even give you directions
• Keeps a record of your life list
• For the 470 most observed North American birds (377 additional bird content can be purchased separately) there are photographs, songs and calls and Kenn Kaufman's notes about the species.

A user review of BirdsEye app:

"What makes this birding app for iPhone so extraordinarily useful for identifying birds is that it shows you the birds that have been reported near your location within the last several days. This narrows the range of possibilities and, combined with the beautiful and detailed bird photos, allows for rapid identification. It also gives you the locations of nearby hotspots that are open to the public and tells you what birds have been spotted there recently. While other bird field guides for the iPhone are certainly useful, this one is unique and deserves consideration by any serious birder." - Jerry Feld

View iBird Explorer Pro

Some Features of iBird Explorer Pro App for iPhone:

• Interactive field guide for every species (924) found in North America, Canada, Hawaii, and all coasts and islands, even extinct birds!
• Audubon-quality full sized color illustrations, with perching and flight views
• Full color range maps for every species
• Search by song, conservation status, genus, species, shape, size, color, flight pattern, bill shape and length, wing shape and more
• Lifetime updates to bird species information

A user review of iBird Explorer Pro app:

"Being able to search by pattern is a killer feature. Search by length, weight and wingspan has revealed things about birds I was never aware of like being able to find the birds that have the widest wingspan or longest length. Also, thank you for letting me now sort the families by alphabetic as the taxonomic search really was confusing to me. But my favorite feature is almost an afterthought - share to hear a bird sing and see its species page. I'm using that feature to teach my daughter how to identify birds by their song and its just really fun." -BlackRail

Whether you are a beginner bird watcher or an expert ornithologist, either or both birding apps for iPhone would be a great addition to your birding knowledgebase that is extremely portable. Birdseye is currently priced at $19.99 and iBird Explorer Pro is currently $29.99. Both, we believe, are bargain prices for the amount and quality of information you receive about birds.

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